Moral Panics, Mental Illness Stigma, and the Deinstitutionalization Movement in American Popular Culture

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2017
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This book argues that cultural fascination with the madperson stems from the contemporaneous increase of chronically mentally ill persons in public life due to deinstitutionalization-the mental health reform movement leading to the closure of many asylums in favor of outpatient care.

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This book argues that cultural fascination with the "madperson" stems from the contemporaneous increase of chronically mentally ill persons in public life due to deinstitutionalization-the mental health reform movement leading to the closure of many asylums in favor of outpatient care.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 06 Nov 2017
ISBN 10: 3319479784
ISBN 13: 9783319479781

Moral Panics, Mental Illness Stigma, and the Deinstitutionalization Movement in American Popular Culture

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$126.01

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$126.01

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